July 8, 2026
- A.B.
- Jul 8
- 2 min read
I’ve been going through my old commonplace book a lot during the last few days, especially since it had been almost a year since I bothered to even touch it. My mood about it seems to have changed since I wrote that post suggesting people should keep one, since it’s now felt like a thing that’s just there and not really a source of excitement. A lot of that is due to both using this blog more for posting and also being more comfortable utilizing OneNote as my dumping ground for collecting information. So, in a way, I still keep a commonplace book, but it’s all in the cloud instead of a physical book that is bursting at the seams and hardly picked up. That said, though, it was nice to take a pen and fill out more space in that book (added trivia about the Moon and various holidays), but there was a little melancholy attached to it since it felt like I’ve moved on from that part of my life.
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Looks like the war is back on, unsurprisingly. So, yeah, that’s a thing again 😒 Also it appears that many of the folks who rah-rah-rahed behind all this are starting to have buyer’s remorse again…
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I had no idea John Oliver was on General Hospital recently (haven’t been following Last Week Tonight lately) but I saw a clip of it yesterday and it was just delightfully bizarre.
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It started raining last night and is expected to continue for the next several days. When I looked outside this morning, it triggered an earworm and started playing Supertramp on a loop in my brain…:
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Started reading The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry last night and am enjoying it. I like his writing style, and the way he teaches about how to read and write poetry is inviting enough to want me to try it myself again. The last time I read a book about the craft aspect of it was Mary Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook, which was also good but a little more stolid in a way that felt like only the hardy few can create poems. Fry’s seems like the better starting point, with Oliver’s being a good follow-up to reinforce the new knowledge.
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